Monday, March 18, 2013

2013 SXSW Film Awards

The 2013 SXSW Film Festival concluded this weekend. The annual festival held in Austin, Texas, with the goal of showcasing new and independent directing talent.

Winners of the audience awards were announced Saturday evening, and earlier in the week, awards were presented by juries in several categories including: Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, Shorts, and even Poster Design.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize was Short Term 12, directed by Destin Cretton. A film starring Brie Larson, as a supervisor at a group foster home for teenagers, who has her own troubled past.

12 comments:

I've been wondering about this festival for a while. Its premise is excellence in new directing isn't it? It looks a little like a yank-wank at this point, but I'm not 100% sure how old it is. Is it exclusively American?

Yes - I know all about the music side of course, but I was interested to see if the film fest had the promise of becoming significant on the film festival circuit. If it isn't just American, then there is a good chance it might turn out to be as useful as the music side if it is.

I think the film side is in a tough spot, kind of sandwiched in between bigger and more established cousins: Sundance and Tribeca. What they need is for one of these 'emerging' filmmakers to get huge, or premiere a big surprise hit for it to really take off.

Thanks for covering this Bonjour! I didn't know SXSW has a film award but I suppose it's just like any film festival. I've never heard of any of the winning films, hope those would get a decent release nationwide.

To be honest, I hadn't heard of these films until I began researching this post either. I do these primarily to become familiar with the titles, and remind myself of films I should check out. I'm glad you found it useful.

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